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Grab a cuppa and listen to me chat to Brodie on Tech Over Tea
9 Feb 2023 at 7:27 pm UTC Likes: 2

When Liam said grab a cuppa I didn't think he meant one as big as your head :-)

It is an entertaining and wide-ranging conversation so worth the listen.

Star Wars Dark Forces source port The Force Engine adds Linux support
8 Feb 2023 at 1:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: WMan22Eagerly anticipating the Luxtorpeda implementation and Flatpak version.
This won't be added to Luxtorpeda as they are avoiding reverse engineered ports.

https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/packages/issues/816 [External Link]

Star Wars Dark Forces source port The Force Engine adds Linux support
7 Feb 2023 at 3:31 pm UTC

On Fedora 37 the pipewire development library (libjack.so) is in /usr/lib64/pipewire-0.3/jack which is correctly detected by cmake but the final linking fails because the library path is not provided to the compiler. I appended -L/usr/lib64/pipewire-0.3/jack to the end of the giant link command in CMakeFiles/tfe.dir/link.txt inside the build directory to correct this.

NVIDIA driver 525.85.05 is out now for Linux
20 Jan 2023 at 1:37 pm UTC

This driver didn't work well for me in Fedora 37 with the new 6.1.7 kernel. My second monitor wasn't detected, though the screen was mirrored. The settings app was also missing most content which seems the opposite of their bug fix about non-privileged users running X.

Star Wars Dark Forces lives on again with The Force Engine
14 Jan 2023 at 4:05 am UTC Likes: 2

A PR for Linux is in the works. I built from the branch, https://github.com/mlauss/TheForceEngine/tree/linux3 [External Link], and played through the first level.

On Fedora 37 the build missing dependencies I had were: rtaudio-devel, rtmidi-devel, DevIL-devel
and glew-devel

I'm now officially converted to the RGB LED religion and OpenRGB is amazing
28 Dec 2022 at 10:09 pm UTC Likes: 1

I've always wondered where these blinged out rigs sit. My case is on the floor to my left so the only LED I can see is the front fan, and barely that. Do you have it sitting on your desk to your right to enjoy all the blinkin` lights to their fullest? I can never hear my case fans, I wonder how it is next to your head.

Star Wars Dark Forces lives on again with The Force Engine
22 Dec 2022 at 6:37 pm UTC

Dug out my CD copy of the game in anticipation.

Valve giving away tons of Steam Decks during The Game Awards 2022
1 Dec 2022 at 12:22 am UTC Likes: 39

I hear it's going to be really boring. I'd recommend that nobody watch. I'll watch and let you know how it goes.

Half-Life 2, Portal, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2 all get upgraded with DXVK 2.0 Vulkan
23 Nov 2022 at 1:29 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: rcritAnd I'm reminded that some Source games will not run on xfs filesystems :-(

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/1685 [External Link]
Huh, wonder how many people are using xfs on their home directories? I know Redhat switched to it, but not sure how many use that as their desktop OS (I would, but I like shiny new things).
RHEL doesn't exactly target consumers. Fedora switched to btrfs as the default in F33.

I'll probably reformat the drive to ext4 when I get a chance.

nit: Red Hat

Half-Life 2, Portal, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2 all get upgraded with DXVK 2.0 Vulkan
21 Nov 2022 at 7:08 pm UTC Likes: 2

And I'm reminded that some Source games will not run on xfs filesystems :-(

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/1685 [External Link]